A Federal Union paper for the European constitutional convention The European Commission should become the executive of the EU The European Parliament should elect the European Commission The presidency of
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By John Williams The immediate unavoidable question of European politics, namely: What does the European Union constitutionally require to assert Europe’s international identity? The answers to this question crystallise what
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Reply to an enquiry via the website – 4 December 2002 What’s your opinion on Giscard d’Estaing’s recent comments on Turkey entering the EU? I agree 100% with him. Turkey
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Letter in the Sunday Times – 22 December 2002 GEOGRAPHY: To be eligible for EU membership, a country has to have European territory, which is why Turkey and Russia may
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By Sir Timothy Garden The nature of US power US foreign policy is about promoting the interests of the United States; but this is true for most nations. Yet
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Correspondence with Peter Hain, British government representative in the European constitutional convention 11 October 2002 Dear Mr Hain You said on Newsnight this evening that all thoughts of a “federal
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Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 5, 3 October 2002 Dear Members of the Convention In the European political process, simplicity is a virtue. Just because one
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Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 4, 5 June 2002 Dear Members of the Convention Not a week goes by without further evidence of the desperation felt
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Federalist Letter to the European Constitutional Convention Issue number 3, 21 May 2002 Dear Members of the Convention You have surely noticed that a quarter of the voters in the
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UEF Federal Committee, Palma de Mallorca, 20-21 April 2002 I. Shaping the future of the EU – Federalists and the Constitutional process The European Council of Laeken in December 2001 set
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